Armageddon - grass on the asteroid?!

I noticed this the other day lol! You'd think they could at least spend the time to clear the grass before they prepared to shoot the scene - it's not that hard! I mean this is just laughable! Deep Impact was a lot more realistic but I admit Armageddon is just fun to watch.

I usually dislike Bruckheimer's style of directing with the constant moving cameras and sensory bombardments but the movie does end up being entertaining. I think the reason I never noticed the grass before is because the camera angles change so fast. He probably figured what the heck nobody will notice it anyway.

Edit: I mean Michael Bay's directing style - Jerry was the producer.

LOL, I always like that a Kenne Bell made a cameo in that movie.

I've always liked both Armageddon and Deep Impact, both entertaining films but I never noticed that before with the grass on the asteroid.

This simulation illustrates what would happen if an asteroid as large as Texas collided with Earth. Drilling 800 feet into an object that size (hundreds of miles across) and detonating nukes as Bruce Willis and his team did in the movie would do nothing lol!

quad said:

This simulation illustrates what would happen if an asteroid as large as Texas collided with Earth. Drilling 800 feet into an object that size (hundreds of miles across) and detonating nukes as Bruce Willis and his team did in the movie would do nothing lol!

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Absolutely fascinating and terrifying...lol

Do you have a still of that? I haven't seen the movie in years and don't remember how it is seen

SID297 said:

LOL, I always like that a Kenne Bell made a cameo in that movie.

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lilcoop03 said:

Do you have a still of that? I haven't seen the movie in years and don't remember how it is seen

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Armageddon Movie Featured Supercharged Space Drilling Rig

But to the car stuff. A scene in the movie, Ben Affleck and Owen Wilson are supposed to be working on this hi-tech space drilling rig. On the table in front of them, was a Kenne Bell supercharger, shorty headers, a hurst shift, and a billet crank shaft. All 5.0 Mustang parts. So we are to assume that the plan to save the world involved a supercharged 5.0 with a T5 manual transmission.

My guess is that who ever was ordering the props for the movie wanted new parts for his Fox Body. Once the filming was complete, who'd miss them?

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carrrnuttt said:

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HAHAHA! Hilarious

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thats awesome!

SID297 said:

LOL, I always like that a Kenne Bell made a cameo in that movie.

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Nice catch I never noticed that! Here's a screenshot of the supercharger with Steve Buscemi's eyes also in the shot!

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Brilliant.

quad said:

This simulation illustrates what would happen if an asteroid as large as Texas collided with Earth. Drilling 800 feet into an object that size (hundreds of miles across) and detonating nukes as Bruce Willis and his team did in the movie would do nothing lol!

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Welp, glad I was watching this on the shitter.

SID297 said:

LOL, I always like that a Kenne Bell made a cameo in that movie.

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Maybe they used the Brave Little Toaster to heat the ice.


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Never noticed that and I always try and spot things of that sort.

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quad said:

This simulation illustrates what would happen if an asteroid as large as Texas collided with Earth. Drilling 800 feet into an object that size (hundreds of miles across) and detonating nukes as Bruce Willis and his team did in the movie would do nothing lol!

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One thing this leaves out: the effects of the asteroid's impact with the Earth's atmosphere. 450,000 miles per hour is Mach 600. The shockwave through the air will encircle the planet numerous times before the asteroid even hits the ocean, much less the ground beneath. That shockwave, alone, will kill every living thing on land and probably in the oceans as well. BEFORE the asteroid even touches the physical planet itself.

Saying that got me thinking, and I came up with this happy little thought: the asteroid doesn't even have to impact the planet at all to kill it. Just skim through the atmosphere, down to say, 30,000 feet, and every living thing on land, and probably in the ocean, is dead, just from the shockwave of the rock hitting the atmosphere. Not even striking the planet, just skipping off the atmosphere like a kid skipping stones on a lake, and whizzing off into space; everything on Earth is dead.

That film was shot 23 years ago before HD or 4k upscreening where now you see blades of hair growing on people.

I saw that movie on the big screen and youd never notice that back then.

it is a grAsteroid

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Saying that got me thinking, and I came up with this happy little thought: the asteroid doesn't even have to impact the planet at all to kill it. Just skim through the atmosphere, down to say, 30,000 feet, and every living thing on land, and probably in the ocean, is dead, just from the shockwave of the rock hitting the atmosphere. Not even striking the planet, just skipping off the atmosphere like a kid skipping stones on a lake, and whizzing off into space; everything on Earth is dead.

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You just ruined my day, James. LOL!

That was an interesting and frightening video.